telereality

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noun

The supposed reality conveyed by television.

OriginEnglish reality ← French réalité ← Medieval Latin reālitā →
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Meanings

nountelereality (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe supposed reality conveyed by television.

    The "real" world unfolds in the swarming dots of a twenty-five inch screen in trinitronic telereality.

    1987, Telos, Volume 20, Number 73, Washington University, page 61
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    This suprasensory reminiscence, this journey of the soul through places, bodies and successive lives, this fantasy ubiquity, has nothing to do with the ubiquity that is ours through the networks, through telepresence and telereality.

    2005, Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil, or the Lucidity Pact, page 207

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  2. Ancient Greekτῆλε (têle)
  3. Englishtele-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁ís
  6. Proto-Italic*reis
  7. Classical Latinrēs
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  10. Latinreālis
  11. Medieval Latinreālitā
  12. Frenchréalité
  13. Englishreality
  14. Englishtelereality

From tele- + reality.

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Chicago

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